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Brian J. Soden is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with substantive contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's main areas of study cover a broad range of climate-related topics. These include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Brian J. Soden has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues, reflecting the diversity of their research interests. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • AGU Advances
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Their recent scientific papers demonstrate an emphasis on climate dynamics, radiation budget, aerosol-cloud interactions, and feedback mechanisms within the climate system. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Observational Evidence of Increasing Global Radiative Forcing" (2021) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Compensation Between Cloud Feedback and Aerosol-Cloud Interaction in CMIP6 Models" (2021) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks in the climate system" (2021) published in Reviews of Modern Physics
  • "Observed Modulation of the Tropical Radiation Budget by Deep Convective Organization and Lower-Tropospheric Stability" (2020) published in AGU Advances
  • "State dependence of CO 2 forcing and its implications for climate sensitivity" (2023) published in Science

Brian J. Soden frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Gabriel A. Vecchi, Bosong Zhang, Haozhe He, Wenchang Yang, and Ryan J. Kramer, indicating productive scientific partnerships across climate and atmospheric science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming

    Isaac M. Held;Brian J. Soden

  • Observations. Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change. Chapter 3

    K E Trenberth;P D Jones;P Ambenje;R Bojariu

  • Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change

    KE Trenberth;PD Jones;P Ambenje;R Bojariu

  • Observations: Atmosphere and surface

    Dennis L. Hartmann;Albert M.G. Klein Tank;Matilde Rusticucci;Lisa V. Alexander

  • Atmospheric Warming and the Amplification of Precipitation Extremes

    Richard Philip Allan;B.J. Soden

  • Remote Sea Surface Temperature Variations during ENSO: Evidence for a Tropical Atmospheric Bridge

    Stephen A. Klein;Brian J. Soden;Ngar Cheung Lau

  • Water vapor feedback and global warming

    Isaac M. Held;Brian J. Soden

  • Global warming and the weakening of the tropical circulation

    Gabriel A. Vecchi;B. J. Soden

  • An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models

    Brian J. Soden;Isaac M. Held

  • How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes

    Sandrine Bony;Robert Colman;Vladimir M. Kattsov;Richard P. Allan

  • Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing

    Gabriel A. Vecchi;Brian J. Soden;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Isaac M. Held

  • Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels

    Brian J. Soden;Isaac M. Held;Robert C. Colman;Karen M. Shell

  • Global Cooling After the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo: A Test of Climate Feedback by Water Vapor

    Brian J. Soden;Richard T. Wetherald;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Alan Robock

  • Effect of remote sea surface temperature change on tropical cyclone potential intensity

    Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Brian J. Soden

  • Evidence for Large Decadal Variability in the Tropical Mean Radiative Energy Budget

    Bruce A. Wielicki;Takmeng Wong;Richard P. Allan;Anthony Slingo

  • On the contribution of local feedback mechanisms to the range of climate sensitivity in two GCM ensembles

    Mark J. Webb;C. A. Senior;D. M.H. Sexton;W. J. Ingram

  • Tropospheric Aerosol Climate Forcing in Clear-Sky Satellite Observations over the Oceans

    J. M. Haywood;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;B. J. Soden

  • Increased tropical Atlantic wind shear in model projections of global warming

    Gabriel A. Vecchi;Brian J. Soden

  • Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty

    Norman G. Loeb;John M. Lyman;John M. Lyman;Gregory C. Johnson;Richard P. Allan

  • The Radiative Signature of Upper Tropospheric Moistening

    Brian J. Soden;Darren L. Jackson;V. Ramaswamy;M. D. Schwarzkopf

  • Upper tropospheric relative humidity from the GOES 6.7 μm channel: method and climatology for July 1987

    Brian J. Soden;Francis P. Bretherton

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Richard P. Allan
Richard P. Allan University of Reading
Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
William Ingram
William Ingram University of Oxford
Stefan Buehler
Stefan Buehler Universität Hamburg
Mark J. Webb
Mark J. Webb Met Office
Amy C. Clement
Amy C. Clement University of Miami
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Sandrine Bony
Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité
Norman G. Loeb
Norman G. Loeb Langley Research Center

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